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Screenings of the 1969 Western “The Wild Bunch,” followed by a Q&A with W.K. Stratton, author of the book “The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a ...
Violence had long been a staple of American movies by the time Sam Peckinpah’s "The Wild Bunch" clopped into cinemas on June 18, 1969. For Westerns, violence was the primary draw.
Soon after it opened, Stratton went to a local theater and saw the blood-soaked, balletic 1969 Western about five outlaws trying to steal a cache of guns on the Texas-Mexico border. The Wild Bunch ...
Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” opens with perhaps the most startling and convulsive burst of sustained violence in all of the American cinema: a raging inferno of bloodshed expl… ...
"The Wild Bunch"--not to be associated with Butch Cassidy and his Wyoming outlaw gang--is the type of action-western that meets with favorable b.o. reaction in regular as well as oater situations.
“Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch,” starring Ross Jirgl and Jilon VanOver, is a compelling new original western film that premiered on March 16 on Tubi.
Early in the filming of “The Wild Bunch” in the spring of 1968, its star, William Holden — winner of the best actor Oscar for “Stalag 17” in 1954 — had a day off. Holden spent part of ...
Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch followed an outlaw gang who are forced to adapt to the modern world on the Texas-Mexico border in 1913. ... including the sequel to his hit film Top Gun.